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Thursday, August 09, 2007
> … The new model predicts that, during the coming decade, average global
temperature will be 0.3 degrees Centigrade (plus/minus 0.21 degrees
Centigrade) higher than the 2004 average temperature.
> But can mathematical models really estimate global temperature change
within 0.3 degrees Centigrade when we don’t even know what the average
global temperature is to within 0.7 degrees Centigrade?
> As NASA’s alarmist-in-chief James Hansen admits, we have no definition
of what we are trying to measure in the context of average global
temperature. “For the global mean, the most trusted models produce a
value of roughly 57.2 degrees Fahrenheit, but it may easily be anywhere
between 56 and 58 degrees Fahrenheit and regionally, let alone locally,
the situation is even worse,” says Hansen.
> For a dimmer view of the concept of average global temperature, consider
the thoughts of renowned theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson who says
that average land temperature is “impossible to measure… is a fiction…
nobody knows what it is… there’s no way you can measure it.”
> The UK researchers (and most other climate alarmists) are even wrong on
the matter of 1998 being the warmest year on record – at least for the
U.S. According to a new analysis which discovered an error in a NASA
dataset, 1934 is the new warmest year on record for the U.S. In fact,
four of the warmest 10 years in the U.S. date from the 1930s while only
three date from the last 10 years. This is an embarrassing setback for
alarmists, especially since about 80 percent of manmade carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions occurred after 1940.
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